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CHANDLER PUBLICIST.
IF. II. FKLNCII. Editor A Manngcr.
M US. C. C. FRENCH, Aliu«!
CHANDLER,
Editor
OKLAHOMA.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TKKKITOil*
Oklahomuns nre enjoyinp delightful
Autumn weather.
The strongest " lection bet yet heard
of was made yesteitlay by two (Garfield
county farmers. The wager whs a
bushel of onions.
Three oyster parlors will open up in
Enid this winter and the eligible
young men are already preparing to
move out of town.
At South McAlester the prisoners
have made several attempts to escape,
and have been warned at last that an-
| other attempt to escape will be follow-
ed by slaughter.
fn a bad runaway near Itritton the
other day the lines were lost. Oertrude
Luce held Anna Itritton while Anna
« The meeting of the Anti-Horse Thief crept out on the tongue between the
| association at Guthrie recently did not j galloping horses and recovered the
well dressed man had the nnrve include bicycle*. A man :in't chuugt- lines
to appear on the streets of Outline
yesterday wearing a straw hat It
was evident that he is not a "sooner."
A Logan county farmer has one hun-
dred head of hogs which he will push
on the market in the early winter.
The hog industry in Oklahoma is a pro-
fitable business.
There are over seven hundred Sun-
day schools in Oklahoma at present
and still their organization continue.
This indicates that religion, p- • and
happiness reigns supremo in our
0 midst.
Elmer Itlake, formerly a postmaster
near Omaha, Neb., was arrested in
Fonca Indian reservation on a charge
of embezzling pulllic funds while
postmaster. The arrest was made by
Nebraska officers and Hlake will be
taken to Omaha.
"I draped my poeketbook yester
day," suid an old lady to a downtown
clerk, "and it had a $10 check in it find
about in silver. Now don't you sup-
pose that the person who found it will .
return it to nu • "Well, Oklahe>m;<
people are pretty near good enough for
that. • • •
A Noble county young man who left '
home some time ago because nothing !
suited him, returned recently. It was
Supposed by hif family that he had
come back cured of the habit of com-
plaining and a fatted c lf was killed.
Hut the very ttrst thing he did was to
object to the way the culf was cooked.
It is a cold day when the Enid Wave
doesn't have something about King's
lake. 0 Hen la the Jlteai. w
ley King is in town and noticed a flock
of ducks flying in the direction of his
pond, he hurridly flies home behind the
old mare and wipes the ducks from the
bosom of that lake. He has killed as
high as twenty-three at one shot, and
there is scarcely a morning, in season,
that ho does not bag # few ducks.
lake iifthe best paying scheme
in the strip. It produces fish, ducks,
geese, cabbage, celery, strawberries,
all kinds of vegetables and is starting
i ?()-acre orchard that will in time
make its owner several thousand dol-
° .arsayear. The Wave publishes these
reports of King's lake for the purpose
:>f encouraging farmers to construct
akes. The lalje attachment to King's
farm makes it worth $1,000 more than
than other farms and the entire cost of
,t was about 8.100, windmill and all.
Oklahoma made itself heard in the
tjreat Tom Reed demonstration Satur-
day at Wichita. The tribute Tom Reed
paid to the zeal, the energy, and the'
devotion of Mr. Flynn to the interests
of his people was a tribute that any
man might«feel proud of. This is u '
Mr. Read said: "Now, a way down in a
country that is not in any way connect-
ed with this particular election, except
in the matter of sending a delegate,
that is the territory of Okluhftma. It
has gt} the best delegate I ever*saw
from any territory. A man who has
carried through the house of represen-
tatiyes the bill for the free homes of
the people of that country. Whether
they want these free homes or not of
course I don't know. They know best
themselves. If they succeed in repu-
diating the man whose ability caused
them to obtain the boon, so far as the
house of representatives is concerned,
we shall all of us know what to do
about it In short their fate is in their
own hands.
It is said that more cattle are being
taken into the southern part oj Okla-
homa this fall from Texas than ever
before in the history of the territory.
Prominent cattlemen concede the fact
that they can be kept el*>aper there
than in any other territdl y
An old editor in the territory hn*
had oharge of maay youif diwspaper
•writers says that he notices that the
young men just from college make
more trouble for him with their bad
gram me r than those picked up miscel-
laneously from other sources.
The farmers in the new country are
boasting oyer the fact that the Strip is
rapidly proyinf? to be as much <*' a
cotton production country as old Okla-
homa. Cotton is a staple article, for
which a good price isalwav command
ed. •
One thing that yklahonia does not
appreciate fully about her newspapers
is this: They are the most courageous
sheets in the United States. When
they 4o not like a thing they say it-
even if it is ui the middle of u harii-
•night campaign.
the brand on a bicyclt
The undertaker at Oklahoma C ity
who prepared Harry St. John's body
for burial stands ready to prove that
his death was perfectly genuine.
"I know," remarked the Oklahoma
voter in confusion. "Of course you put
the X in that little square. But where
ic the Bay I hear ao much about?" •
A Logan county paper aftya (hat a
certain lady resident ifltcmla to give a
big party complimentary to a girl who
is visiting her from the Osage country
as soon as she can break her guest of
the habit of sitting with one foot under
her.
The average Oklahoma sportsman is
at present almost living on wild game
and enjoying the "fat of the land "
Small game of all kinds are plentiful
and the residents are using every pre-
caution to protect their i titin ent
game laws, thereby prohibiting tin
ahipment gam it . f the Torritory,
or the sole of any game.
A destructive rear-end collison be I
tween tw<
oceurr
The bandits who looted Carney and
the Sac and Fox agency have taken re-
fuge in the Creek nation, but sallied
out and stole a number of valuable
horses from farmers amj arc evidently
preparing for another raid. Eastern
Oklahoma is terrorized
Thy Choctaw council passed a bill
creating a commission to treat with
the Dawes commission. A townsite
bill is being prepared and will be sub-
mitted to the Dawes eotftmission for
their approval. It provides for collect-
ing a rental on all town property lu*ld
by non-citizens and citizens.
D. R. Roebuck, who was struck by a
Frisco" train some time ago, died from
the effects of the injuries Friday at
• ml 1^- was appointed national
attorney for the Choctaw'nation two
\ ears ago and was eleete4 to the office
a year ago, but on account of some of
the returns coming up blank, he was
counted out
Oklahoma people are praying for
cold weather. The fall has been vertf
A BARTERED LIFE.
i.^ir
, , . , mild and everything is still gr
southbound freight tra ns in.i , , ,
, „ i ,ln"' attracted by the warm weather
ion the Gulf, Colorado A San .... i , ,• ,
. u and vegetation, awarmt <-f irraaahop*
tu l e railway about midnight on the i,. , , , ,
, i < is haw arrived from the north and
37th at the aouth ernl of the W.ehlta ur thp uhp,„
passenger and freight fioW„, <lolnff t ,h cverywhert,
on the road for t,hc>y have appeared.
hours. A caboose and one box i ti,.. n „.« «• ,
■ I,.. ' mission is showing
canyon.® All
traffic was blocked
car were demolished and burned. The
engine on the second train wns badly
damaged.
Since the recent gold excitement in
the Wichita mountains, quite a num-
ber of Oklahomans are flocking to the
scene. Of course if gold can be found
in these mountains, it is a conceded
fact that it can be found in many part:?
of old Oklahoma. The report of the
big find in the Wichita mountains has
renewed the excitement <^f last winter
and the Oklahoma people are quite ju
bilant.
A month ago a number of prospec-
tors, who had begun to open up mines
in the Wichita mountains, were arrest-
ed and taken before a I'nitcd States
commissioner. Last week they were
given a preliminary hearing, and the
commissioner has just rendered a de
*eision declaring that4here was no law
under which they con 1<4 bo held, and
therefore discharging them. The men
have returned to their work with sup-
plies and tools. They now li: • s^aft
sixty feet deep and are taking out ore
assaying Sl/.'OO to the ton. Within a
few days a number of new prospectors
have arrived and us soon as the decis-
ion becomes officially promulgated
there will be a rush for the hills.
The prisoners confined In t ha Unitod
States jail at s-eith McAlester eviden
e '«I insubordination Tuesday. The\
threatened to set fire to the jail, so
that ttye guards would be compelled to
open the door and let them out They
s#tc promptly told that thejeeys were
sent away ami if they kindled a tire
it was at their own peril. They ttnully
became so bail that the leaders had to
be put in irons and extra guards put
on. A little iuter the leader secured i
stove door and came near cutting th
i""ls "" I ha\ alien 1'cgun digging I would suiq 1\ mean almost endb s nti
a tunnel under the wall, but were .lis- j gatl™ and would enet.nil.er every
eovered la time to prevent an esea, e. j eourt of the Mtkm with OMM The
If V J.,1 del,very i. attempted there Indians ean u.ahe more v. m*k.
w.li Ma ala fht«r, as the mxii'u, ■ qoiok^tadnooesatlsfaetoril/ and
armed |wtth shotguns .ml revohvi-s ,ld non lar:;ei v in bulldloff n the
and have heen ins.rueted to shoo, at j ,mvlls „f „„,ry l.v MB.
the slightest ii.dieatum of an ant- Uw In this dirwtkra thin they ou
bm,k- in any other manner.
een!e7 ",I'i<lly Br°>Vi"K "S " ''0tt011 j N,'arl.v "erybody has been eaught at
1 ' e mo time by the man who wants to
The Daw
the ('herokees that it is not so easy a
matter to get on the citizenship roll
under the commission's management
as it was when the applications were
made to the tribal council. of about
1300 cases disposed of at last report
only two of the applicati<*is for citi-
zenship had been allowed. Before the
commission t'i question becomes one
of evidence and justice; before the
council it was simply a matter of the
ability of the applicant to raise §nough
money to buy his way in.
The Oklahoma game law prohibits
the sale or shipment out of quail oi
any other game, but the law is being
violated'daily says, the Out brie Lead
er. The territory is alive with quail
and it has been discovered within«a
few days that hundreds of birds were
being shipped out daily in egg cases,
with one layer of eggs on top. Sixty
cases packed with quail were seized in
cold storage in Guthrie, and yesterday
special officers were sent to Kansas
City, Dallas, Wichita and other pointi
to watch shipments and locate the
shippers, who wijl be jtrosceutcd.
Any townsite plan that does not give
absolute possession to the property
INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
CHAPTER V. ! linked her destiny with that of a man
j* DON'T understand •whom ehe did not love. He had known
how you happened lozenfi of other women who did the
to cross that rough same at the bidding of similar motives,
mountain in your -md hia^sympathies had lain dormant.
~ jl route from the de- Hut this one h;Td heart and intellect,
4lpot " said the elder v famishing.
brother, when the 1 have that Mr. Withers' sensi-
family assembled wore not lively, nor his love In-
t hat evening for j But of'all people living this, bis
V what Miss Field nl- "nly ^rot,ur. had most hold upon his
ways denominated !lPnrJ- most Jnfluence upon his Judg
a "sociable, • old-
will not be satisfactory to a majority
of town occupants. No man wants to
pay aground rent upon that which he
has already bought, with the prospect
ahead of him that he must at, some fu-
ture flute contest for his own property
at auction against some man who has
never expended a dollar or an effort
in building up the town and giving
value to the property Vt issue. To at-
j tempt to enforce a lease system in the
j towns of the Chickasaw nation, in
j most of which lots are and have long
I been openly bought and sold, passing
j from band to hand as in the states,
The tfiird annual Oklahoma terri-
torial Sunday school convention in
session at K1 Reno for three days past
julj<turned on the id after electing
officers for the cnOuing year. Over five
hundred dollars were pledged towards
the carrying on of tin- work of organ
izing the entire territory by counties
and townships for more effective Sun-
day school work and the c.*i\cntion
closed with great enthusiasm. •
The Oklahoma farmers have begin
to haul up feed and feed their stock
the grass and almost everything that
was green, luiviug been killed by the
heavy frosts. * *
• A c\clone struck Mitche!! post-offloe,
if there is anything in nature more twenty miles east of (inthrie Wodnes-
beautif.iMhi.n an OklehoBW .lune it is day night and swept aw ay a nninlier
Oklahoma October. The landscape j of farm houses. Postmaster Mullen
perfectly gorgeous now with the j „nd wife are reported
ftut..am reds and yellows, and the eir i killed, and many
bet 810 that four months from the day
a certain presidential candidate is in-
augurated every national bank in the
I'nitcd States will closed. The
president is inaugurated on March 4th
and as four months from date will be
.Inly 4th, of course they u ill. A smart
Oklahoma man triejl the "gag" on a
friend recently but in his eagerness
made a inistifke and said "three
months." Hut the money is up now
and he will have to lose.
The tide has turned iu favor of the
horse in the territory. Horses are go-
ing up in price and bicycles are coming
is fragrant and bracing, .lust to 1
live such days and amid such seen
is a hies-.,«d bi^i
It is now said to be th
for men to «car pictures of their wives
or suet*hearts on buttons. Thf- prac-
tice may be fashionable but it is not in
g« od taste.
( in the vicinity of Oklahoma
ity on the uplands is still uninjured
by frost,
A large potato crop is n valuable ok-
lahoma production this year.
It is reported that the Strip farms
are selling for 80 percent more this
year than la§t.
A number of recent heavy frosts
have killed the vegetation in southern
Oklahoma. #
What bceanu df the Indian warovci
• the issue of beef on the block instead
of on the hoof?
Now that the campaign is about to a
close, the Oklahoma farm* i u i? et
rest. •
William K. Vanderbtlt li^s been vis-
iting in the Wichita reservation but
the average Indian treated him with as
much contempt as he would a man
worth fifty cents.
Some one in the Indiaa territory la Henry Orcrdollar, a young mail of
m.etn "voieK 'f,,tV l',OU!"'nd V"U'r8 "Uh '" •"■"•I l the western
part of f,ogan county Saturday by
Constable ChtdvHolc and liMlgcil in the
1)ight • county 'jail. He ia charged iviUi eriui-
The' Agricultural and Mechanic! ^ ^S"
college opened this vear with an en- "i, M T, "^/""ent in (),-
rollmcnt of 80 student, with daily ad- ^ ,n"trl£0rl,0°" "
ditions against him. He was unable to give
bail.
An Oklahoma preacher who is tired A Noble county farmer last week
of the whole business stops up his ears gathered 140 bushels of com from two
now with his lingers when he has to acres of land. Huch Is the productive-
pass a political argumeat. nesg cf Oklahoma soil.
have been
e reported
dead. Rescuing parties with coffins
have helm scut out from Outline. Par-
ticulars are meagre.
e correct thing | The election excitement in Oklahoma
. wm be .over just in time to get out of
the way of the Christmas excitement.
.'ashioned tea," which, in the country,
was served at the town dinner hour.
"Could you obtain no conveyance at
the station*.''' • #
"None—unless I chose to wait sev-
eral hours. Surmising at once that my
letter had not arrived In season to no-
tify you of my coming, I left my bag-
gage In charge of the station master
and set out on foot. I pleased myself
when I was here two years ago with
surveying an air line# between your
house and the nearest point of the 1 ail-
road. If one does not mind some pretty
steep hi!!.-, he can save na least two
miles by availing himself of my topo-
graphical skill. It was a pleasant va-
riety to me, after six*hours In a narrow
ringj^ftr seat, to stretch my limbs over
rocky pass and breathe the fresh air of
the wildwoods instead of smoke and
cinders."
"The mystery to me Is how and
where you met. Mrs. Withers!" chirped
vivacious Harriet. t .« explain! I
never so astonished in my life as wfien
I saw you two walking up the avenue
talking together llko old friends."
"As we are," smiled Edward at his
sister-in-law. "She was sitting at, the
foot of a cedar near my projected road
enjoying the prospect beneath her. I
i^cognized her from her resemblance
to the photograph you sent me while 1
was abroad, Elnathan; walked up to
her, like the impertinent fellow some
people think I am; introduced myself,
and offered to escort her home."
"You should have taken a servant
with you, C mstifnce," all her husband,
magisterially. "It is not safe or proper
for a lady to ramble alone in this thin-
ly-settled neighborhood,"
"There ale charcoal burners In thft
mountains!" Miss Harriet interjected,
Bhudtleringly. "The most ferocious
looking creatures, with long beards
and black faces. I saw one once when
we were*driving out. And there used
to be bears, when the country was first
' settled "
"And wolves, and catamounts, j.nd
red Indians with no beards at all," fin-
ished the younger Withers warningly.
"Mrs. Withers, let me advise you to
take me along whenever you stir be-
yond the garden fence. I saw a Rocky
Mountain savage once, and last vear
was one of a party that went out on a
bear hunt in Norway. We saw nothing
of Bruin, It is true, but nly instructions
how to act in cose he crossed my path
were so minute that I am confident I
should prove a valiant protector In
time of nee f."
The invitation thus playfully given
wns renewed in earnest on the fallow-
ing day. The brother and sister-in-law
were excellent friends from the mo-
ment of their meeting. The traveled
member of the eminent banking firm
of Withers Bros, was about 30 years of
age, and attractive in person, rather
froiTi a certain grace and elegance of
bearing, and a frank. Intelligent ex-
pression than from regularity of fea-
ture. He had read much and seen
many lands, and knew how to use the
knowlr lge thus gained for the enter-
tainment of his companions. A passion-
ate lover of music, he wns not slow In
discovering Constance's klndrcd#tastes.
His.coming gave a different complexion
to life In the secluded country house.
There were horseback rides before
breakfast, and diligent practice with
voice and instruments piano, flute and
violin, besides a couple of hours' read-
ily; in the forenoon; then came the
after-dinner waty, seldom ending un-
til sunset. In the evening Elnathan
Withers dozed in his stuffed ( hair while
he tried to beat time to the duet going
on at the other end of the room, and
Harriet, bolt upright in the middle of
a sofa, did wondrous things with a
spool of cotton or silk and a crochet
needle—and took observations with her
bond) eye®. •
She was discreet as to the result of
these. For nught ttyat could !>;• gather \i
from her words or conduct she ap-
proved entirely ot the growing Inti-
macy between the married lady and
the ftgti • abli Imu ■! >r. Elnathan vu
not a man of fine feellngi and stroog
affections. He had made np his mind
to nyirry because a stylish wife would
add tn his individual oonseQuenoe end
adorn his already princely establish-
ment. Constance Komaine pleased his
critical eye. and captivated whatever of
fancy dwelt In his practical nature.
Vet. having wedded, he trusted her.
She offended him sometimes. He often
wished that she were interpenetrated
with something of Harriet's reverence
for himself; that she would put forth
more effort to anticipate his Wishes,
and < onform herself In slf n sp<1 ts to
his IdsM ot ti1'!' i in demeanor and
conversation. He was never harsh In
his treatment of these deficiencies, but
Prairie fires out in Beaver and Oraut
counties have been doing some damage
of late.
A Cleveland county man who hates
bicycles says; "When a man begins to
ride a bicycle his intellect begins to
decay and when he becomes a 'profes-
sional cyclist' his intellect is ull gone."
The south-bound train between Guth* I
rie and Oklahoma City are polled every
his pertinacious schooling, his curbing
and dictating, the portentous shak
of, his head and solemn curvature of
the brows, irritated her to the extreme
of forbearance. ,
Edward had not been twelve hours
in the house before he perceived t'^s
endeavor on his brother's side to mold
u mature woman Into the likeness of
But this particular man is one who j his prim Ideal, and the effect wrought
by it. He had suspected It in the course
of his initial Interview with his broth-
er's wife upon the mountain. He never
told her that, attracted by her singing,
he had stealthily neared the spot
where she sat, and, unseen by her.
been a witness of the tearful struggle
between her real self an<| Fate. He
had pitied her heartily then, while
comparatively Ignorant of the reason
for her seditious emotion. His com-
passion was more profound ns he bet-
ride
cycle if he
ouldn't learn
tried.
The wheat in many parts of Oklaho- ;
ma is in splendid condition.
The big rock between Orlando and
Stillwater should out of consideration j
Im named Cliff Castle.
Judge MeAtee and biido are spetid-
their honeymoon in Chicago.
In most of the street discussions in r
Oklahoma the argufiers abuse one an- ter understood the relations between
other shamefully. Out ill all of the ill-niati lied pair. Had Ills personal
dist ussious no blow is over struck. ,ikin« f0!' hl« new sister been less de-
The arguments a o principally raiicry I c,ded ho wou,<1 have Pronounced her
uud it speaks wonderb that the men
tuke everything good naturedly.
unhapplness to be the righteous punish-
ment of her crime and folly in having
mcnt. He made fnuch of him after 1 is
formal style; listened with obvious re-
spect and secret pride to his opinions,
and'eoneeived the notion that his wife
was highly honored when Edward Fin-
gled her out as the object of his
marked attentions, and did not t-is-
guise the pleasure he, the lion of many
brilliant circles, took in her society.
This fullness of confidence in them
both, and Ills unselfish regard for his
nearest living relative, might have be-
gotten softer and kindlier sentiments
toward him In Constance's breast but
for the palpable fact that he encour-
aged the association, not because it
brought her enjoyment, but as a means
of prolonging Edward's stay with them.
"You seem to amuse my brother," he
said jo his wife one morning, as Fhe
wns arraying herself for her ride. "His
Admiration for you is highly compli-
mentary. I# trust you will leave no
means untried to induce him to remain
with ussome weeks longer. It gratifies
me to see how amicably you get on to-
getlier, pud the friendship is especially
creditable to Edward, Inasmuch as he
was universally regarded as my heir
prior to my marriage."
"In that cas? he deserves all the cour-
tesy I can show him," mused Con-
stance, going thoughtfully down to her
steed and cavalier. "I do not know-
many men who yould he so complaisant
to a stumbling block in the path to
worldlv advancement." •
The conversation would have thrown
her off her guard had she ever consid-
ered it prudent to be wary in an asso-
ciation at once so natural ami inno-
cent. She had always liked Edward,
and was growing to like him bett<®r
•very hour^ They were tiear the same
age, and, being of harmonious tempera-
ments, they usually enjoyed the same
things. He was good, kind and spright-
ly; amused ami interested as much as
Mr. Withers and Harriet wearied her.
This was the reason why the sun b'.;one
more brightly, the breeze was# more
odorous, her favorite exercise more
inspiriting on that early midsummer
morn than these had ever been before.
I ean hardly Relieve that I enter to-
day upon the third week of my sojourn
in this region,"'said Edward, when the
steeply-rising ground compelled them
to slacken their speed.
"Is it possible?" The exclamation
was not a polite and meaningless for-
mula, as Constance brought her startled
eyes around to his. "It seems a very
little while ago that you came to us.
You do not think of leaving us soon,
I hope?"
' I cannot say positively how long I
shall stay. This visit is a welcome ex-
change for my long wanderings. This
—my brother's home—is the only one I
have in America. Yet I was dissatis-
fied with it last year. Elnathan was
often absent—you know best upon
what business" smiling meaningly,
"and, to be candid with you, our cousin
Harriet is not the person whom I
should voluntarily select as Tny only
companion In a desert. But for my gun
and fishing rod I should have commit-
ted suicide or run away an^ left her to
the tender mercies of the Hibernian
domestics and the bears. I would not
be so communicative touching her to
any but a member of the family. But'
she is one of my betes nolres. I never
lik«4<l her." „
•"Nor I!" answered Constance, ener-
getically.
"Then, my little sister, you and I
should unite our forces to counteract
her influence with my brother. His
disposition is, in some respects, singu-
larly guileless. He believes that Har-
riet's officious regard for his comfort
and deference to hi3 wishes and opin-
ions have their root in sincere attach-
ment for himself. We know better —
know her to be as mercenary as she
thinks herself cunning, and that she
clings to him as the leech does to likn
whose blood is fattening it. I lose all
patience with her fawning and flat-
teries when I recollect that these are
11\T tricks by which she hopes (o cam
h< r living, and. at his decease; a com-
fortable legacy."
CHAPTER VI
ONSTANCE'S face
was averted and
screened from his
view by her wil-
low plume. Her
voice was low, and
had in it an Inflec-
tion of mournful
charity 'or the as-
sailed parasite, or
an echo borrowed
from some sorrow-
ful reminiscence. "Sho Is a woman,
and poor!" she said; "A womnn, too.
whom society forbids, upon penalty c.f
banishment from the circle in which
she w as born and bred, ta seek a live-
lihood by manual labor. It Is easy for
men to talk of freedom of thought and
action. The world is hetor^ them. To
them the bread of charity and depend-
ence mean one and the same'thlng. The
latter Is the only nourishment of most
women from the cradle to the tomb. I
wish the passage between the two was
shorter—for their sake."
' I never looked at the subject In that
light before.'' was Edward's remorseful
replj "Poor old Harriet! I see now
how much more she merits pity than
contempt."
"She Is no worse off than thousands
of* her sisters," said Constance, In
harsher Judgment. "Content yourself
with giving thanks that you were
born a man!"
'She had spoken out of the pain of a
wrung spirit, with no thought of plead-
ing her own'cause. She was too proud
to murmur, least of all to her hus-
band's brother. But the conversation
was a key that unlocked for her in his
heart recesses of Intercut and sympathy
which must else have remained forever
barred against a woman who, whatever
were her virtues and fascinations, had
deliberately bartered her charms ond
perjured herself in order to secure an
eligible settlement.
"And, to do her justice, she is supe-,
rior to" the practice of thearts that make
Harriet acceptable to my brother and
odious to everybody else," he meditat-
ed. "She offers no profession of devo-
tion to the man she has married, while
she accords to him the respectful duty
of a wife. Elnathan seems satisfied.
Perhaps fte craves nothing warmer.
Pray heaven he may never guess of how
much fnte has defrauded him in with-
holding from him the fr$e, glad affec-
tions of a true woman!"
If there were any change^? in his be-
havior to Constance after this, it was
to be discerned in a gentler address, in
unobtrusive regard ftir hex* wishes, tx
pressed or surmised, and a prolonga-
tion of his stay in a house that held 60
few attractions for her. That this ar-
rangement was highly satisfactory to
his brother was not without effect In
shaping his conduct. That Harriet plied
him with solicitations to remain before
his decision wns announced, and was
loudly voluble in her protestations of
dellgtf? when the question was settled,
had not a |traw's weight with him.
^Shc annoyed him less than formerly,
however, either^ as he explained It to
himself, because he had learned charity
from Constance'# defense of the lonely
spinster's policy, *>f because she kept
herself more in the background than
was her wont. She seemed amiably
disposed toward/Constance, too, and he
strove to credit her with kind inten-
tions with regard to one whom meet
people In her situation would have
hated as a usurper. Slie fretted what-
ever project *of outdoor excursion or
domestic recreation was proposed by
him for C?nstance's diversion, offering
herself as th? wife's substitute in the
sober phaeton drive on lyeezy after-
noons, that Coy stance and Edward
might act as outriders, and never
failed to call the husband's notice to
her graceful horsemanship and the
brighter bloom planted in her cheeks
by the exercise. Mr. Withers never
tired of chess, and the indefatigable
toad-eater apparently shared his zeal
on this point. The board was produced
nightly as the days became shorter and
the evenings cooler, and music, reading
or conversation upon art and litera-
ture was carried on for hours by the
remaining two of the quartette without
interruption from the automata bent
over the checkered surface.
Fof Hlrrlet could be taciturn when
need was—a very lay figure in dumb-
ness as in starch. Whether she ever
ceased to be watchful was another mat-
ter.
(to ns coxTisusn.)
Eleot^lo Fencing.
Lovers of fencing will be interested
in an Invention which has just been
tried in London, and which is said to
do away altogether with The difficulty
constantly experienced by an umpire
in judging hits between two equally
matched competitors. This end, It is
declared, has been achieved by cover-
ing the front of each jacket with fine
copper or brass wire gauze, and con-
necting this with tl^e adversary's foil
and an electric bell (of the burlar
alarm pattern) and battery in the same
circuit. It follows that when a hit is
made the circuit is closed, and the bell
rings and continues to ring until stop-
ped by the person in charge. A
special arrangement in each foil han-
dle provides that only a direct point
produces a ring. Two entirely electric-
al Is distinct circuits are used, each in-
cluding ^ bell, foil and jacket; flicks
or blows or grazes produce no result.
The bells being of different tones, and,
moreover, placed on opposite sides of
the room, there is no difficulty In de-
ciding who has scored a ^iit, or* in
cases of simultaneous hits who deliver-
ed the point first. By a simple ar-
rangement the wires passing from the
batteries to the combatant®' collars
are kept well out of the way, however
sudden may be their movements of ad-
vance or retreat. In the London trial,
six selected amateurs competed for a
palr.of foils, and five bouts were fought.
The experiments were completely suc-
cessful. A military expert, Captain
Hutton, who was present, said that the
device would be of great value if such
competitions as the royal •military
tourntynent.
The Wofttlerfnl Maple of l{:,t|l>or.
In the town of Ratibor, Prussia,
stands ons of the most wonderful trees
in the world. It is not of gigantic size
or the only representative of'a species
in which all the members except Itself
are extinct. It Is a common maple
which shows a wonderful combination
of* nature and man's patience and in-
genuity. The tree is only a few years
over a century old, and during its en-
tire life every limb and twig has been
patiently trained by its owners. At
present It looks like a living pagoda,
the branches being so trimmed as to
make it appear like a round tower
with two stories. Each of these com-
partments is lighted by a series of
oight windows, and the two "rooms"
will each hold a dozen persons. The
floors as well as the sides of these won-
derful rooms are constructed of boughs
which are 6o skillfully woven together
that the whole has the appearance of
being some gigantic Imitative freak of
nature^—St. Louis Republic.
Smoking KtlU Germs.
Smoking is a preventive of dlseane
according to a celebrated Viennese pro-
iessor of chemistry. He estimates that
the chances of a smoker catching
diphtheria, smallpox, cholera or other
contagious diseases whose germs are
inhaled through the throat and lungs
nr<, ns compared to the non-smoker,one
in twenty-eigh;. He asserts thatsmokinp
tends to check the development of bac
teria arfid kill them. It |8 well known
that smoking Is forbidden to physi-
cian; and employes In laboratories
given Over to the cultivation and propa-
gation of germs of different diseases for
experiments. Smoke kills these min-
ute organisms, and what applies to n
chemist's workshop applies equally tQ
tlie human body.
Qne way of hiding your light under
a bushel, is to keep your church letter
in your trunk.
Every man should remember that
other people arc setting their watches
by his clock.
The sash is in vogue, but it cannot
be recommended as a part of a bicycle
co^tulfte.
Whon a wise man and a fool are
thrown together, the fool does all the
talking.
The word is not so much in need of
better preaching, as it is of better
practice. •
If the devil had to travel with un^
covered face, only devils would follow
him.
Every step a good man takes, tells
some sinner that lie ought to behavo
himself
A good man will not camp all night
on ground that Ife does not know to bo
safe. #
The next best thing to owning a
thing, is to be satisfied without it
l'aith is always a giant killer, no
matter how humble it may look.
Don't pick out the cross that shines,
if you would bear the right one.
Don't run from a shadow. It means
that there is a light close by.
Every housg built on the sand will
sooner or later have to fall.
A sinner's life is full of things ho
tries to hide from himself. .
No matter how God warns the sinner,
he always does it.in love.
Don't throw away your ticket when
you get iu the tunnel. #
TO CURE A COLD IS ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund the money if it fails tocure. lioO
A good man's life is a voice in which
many hear God speak.
Tly first tunnel ever made was ex-
cavated by the mole.
School girls favor bright plaid cos-
tumes this autumn.
The policing of Liverpool docks cost
8150,000 per annum.
Knowing Christ well, is bound to
make us geuerous.
There is no faith in the prayer that
expects no answer.
In England there are .114 widows tq
every 54 widowers.
As soon as men see God, they begin
to see as he sees.
.Are you building your house on a
poor foundation? •
The christian who worries much,
prays too little.
God ei ule other men to show uq
what is in us.
The first shovel was the nose of the
shovel-Ash.
\ happy christian is always a use-
ful one.*
In France, bicycles are electrically
lighted.
Germany leads in glass-eye manufac-
ture.
At Fall River, Mass., 4" mills are run
ning.
An English mausoleum cost 8750,^
D00.
Dogfish oil is a new California indus
try.
Americans pay 800,000,000 a year for*
^as.
Cascarets stimulates liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe.
Every fact is the child of a thought,
Christ lived all the truth he taught.
The Vatican has 1100 rooms.
. J
Brazil may abolish lotteries.
'Florida has 1 •bar room®
Your bloqd nt this season by tukitij/ Hood's
Sarsaparilla and you will not neea to fear
pneumonia, fevers or the grip. Remember
Sarsaparilla
Is the best-lu fu.>t the fine True Itlnod rurlfh r. ,
DON'T
GET icSS&KS!
WET.
FISH BRAND
SLICKERS
WILL KEEP YOU DRY
DRUGS.
A complete stock of intros for snlo cheap In
■ olce 11300.00.
Good reMon for aelliag.
FRANK BU8IIKY,
- Wichita. Kan.
PENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS.
JOHN W MORRIS, WASHINGTON. DC.
Uu Principal giam'.ntr U 'b P.niloa Bur««u
0/ra. ut liui war, li tit/, um
RURIED MONEY, MINES, Etc.
OPIUM"
Edith
Grace."
Matches arc made in heaven,
Grace—"But on ra -th we make llgoi
of them."—New York Wqrld,
HER I lllll.
I>R Makhii, oulncjr, Mich
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